Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sex

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Sex	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	Asian	Female	23520	21520	38490	34330
In post	2025	Asian	Male	19495	18990	39250	34660
In post	2025	Asian	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Black	Female	13645	12915	37970	35130
In post	2025	Black	Male	9690	9510	38180	35680
In post	2025	Black	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Mixed	Female	6835	6405	40940	35680
In post	2025	Mixed	Male	4645	4540	43060	37690
In post	2025	Mixed	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Other ethnicity	Female	1910	1795	41820	36430
In post	2025	Other ethnicity	Male	1595	1550	43290	37650
In post	2025	Other ethnicity	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Undeclared	Female	8310	7445	39090	34450
In post	2025	Undeclared	Male	12445	11880	42770	37880
In post	2025	Undeclared	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	Unknown	Female	38130	35520	37860	32460
In post	2025	Unknown	Male	38040	37090	39900	35310
In post	2025	Unknown	Unknown	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2025	White	Female	208000	189180	40050	34920
In post	2025	White	Male	163375	157785	43060	37650

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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2025-07-16

Data column	Description
Status	Employment status of the civil servants.
	In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
	New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
	Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
	Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
	Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, United Kingdom Statistics Authority, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland.
Year	Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Sex	Self reported sex.
	"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity	Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
Headcount	Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE	Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
	FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary	Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
	These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary	Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
	These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).